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Maura B. Jacobson
Maura B. Jacobson

New York Times, Wednesday, September 7, 1977

5-Down : Nursery-rhyme mates

Author:
Maura B. Jacobson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { Q X }, Scrabble score: 308 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has duplicate clues.
Maura B. Jacobson has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,252
Across
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Theme: Abbr. : SUBJ
5
Oodles : SCADS
10
Zenith : ACME
14
Guthrie : ARLO
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Actress Prentiss : PAULA
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Restaurateur Toots : SHOR
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"Sweet are the ___ of adversity" : USES
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Pianist : RUBINSTEIN
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Pianist : LIBERACE
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Shostakovich : DMITRI
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After theta : IOTA
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N.Y.C. police organization : PBA
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Bishopric : SEE
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Break : HIATUS
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Necklace fastening : CLASP
31
Improper : UNDUE
32
Two pianists, in musicians' argot : FOURHANDS
36
Regan's father : LEAR
37
Application blanks : FORMS
38
"Let George ___" : DOIT
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Pianists' black-and-white rows : KEYBOARDS
41
Audacity : NERVE
42
Cuzco natives : INCAS
43
Language of "Lohengrin" : GERMAN
44
Sharkey's rating on TV : CPO
47
Poetic dusk : EEN
48
Unfurnished : BARE
49
TV adjunct : AERIAL
51
Pianist : HOROWITZ
55
Pianist : VANCLIBURN
57
Bohemian quarter : SOHO
58
Netman Nastase : ILIE
59
Smithy : FORGE
60
Place for "Sonny Boy" : KNEE
61
Minus : LESS
62
President before Polk : TYLER
63
Doctrines : ISMS
Down
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Author Bellow : SAUL
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Bears: Lat. : URSI
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Small blister : BLEB
4
Pianist : JOSEITURBI
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Nursery-rhyme mates : SPRATS
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River of Colombia : CAUCA
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Troyes's department : AUBE
8
Caesar's 551 : DLI
9
Shoals : SANDBARS
10
Italian wine city : ASTI
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Huntley and Atkins : CHETS
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Watered silk : MOIRE
13
Kovacs : ERNIE
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Kind of hit : SMASH
21
Dissipated one : ROUE
24
Windfalls : PLUMS
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Wrecked ship : HULK
27
Relative of curare : INEE
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"An apple ___ ... " : ADAY
29
Silver and spinal : CORDS
30
Pianist : PADEREWSKI
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" ... lie down ___ aeon or two": Kipling : FORAN
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Par : NORM
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La Scala V.I.P. : DIVA
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Machine gun : STEN
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Cosmetic surgery : FACELIFT
40
Actor Ryan : ONEAL
41
Pianist : NERO
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Pianist : GARNER
44
Quibble : CAVIL
45
Norman Vincent : PEALE
46
Avifauna : ORNIS
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Pianist : BORGE
50
Does a bakery chore : ICES
51
Practice pitching : HURL
52
Atomic particles : IONS
53
"Let ___ eat cake" : THEM
54
Caldwell and Akins : ZOES
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Behan's "Borstal ___" : BOY

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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